When Meghan Markle and Prince Harry welcomed their first child, Archie Harrison, they didn’t want to have a team of nannies and staff in their home.
Instead, they opted to do things on their own with a little help from Meghan’s mum, Doria, who was in the UK for the birth.
But a few months later the couple decided to hire a night nurse to help them establish a night time routine with their gorgeous little boy.
However their first hire only lasted a few days and they sacked the nanny following an “incident in the night”.
Unsurprisingly, the experience put them off having child care during the night and despite hiring a second nanny they decided to let them go pretty quickly.
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Speaking on Channel 4’s A Very Royal Baby : From Cradle to Crown, Omid Scobie explains: “Very few people know the real story behind it.
“After Archie’s arrival, Harry and Meghan wanted some help to establish a sleep pattern. They hired a night nanny.
“Whilst I can’t go into someone else’s employment details for legal reasons, it was an incident on one of the first nights that put the couple off from having a night nurse.”
Omid also mentioned the story in his hit biography of Meghan and Harry, Finding Freedom.
He wrote: “Meghan and Harry were forced to let the nurse go in the middle of her second night for being unprofessional and irresponsible.”
Despite the bad experience, the couple decided to give it another go and hired a second nanny to help but unsurprisingly the first incident left them nervous.
In the book, Omid writes: “Neither found themselves comfortable sleeping through the night without going to check on Archie regularly.”
They decided that a night nurse wasn’t for them and instead looked for someone to help them during the day.
Omid continues: “They moved onto number three. Which was a woman that worked for them for quite some time actually, until the moved to California.
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“She helped them out on very much a 9-5 basis and it was a great working relationship actually despite reports.”
Nannies are the norm in the royal family, and Harry and his brother Prince William are still extremely close to Tiggy Legge-Bourke, one of the women who helped bring them up.
Charles hired Tiggy in 1993 after his separation from Diana. However the Princess reportedly didn’t get on with her and was jealous of their bond.
It was Tiggy whom William asked to attend his Eton speech day rather than his warring parents and the attention they would bring.
She once described William and Harry as “my babies” and later played a key role in helping them adjust after the death of their mother in 1997.
Kate and William employ Norland Nanny Maria Teresa Turrion Borrallo to help them with George, Charlotte and Louis.
She joined the family in 2014 when George was eight months old and has been a key part of their lives ever since – joining them on royal tours and family holidays.
Originally from https://www.mirror.co.uk/tv/tv-news/meghan-markle-put-off-childcare-24175073